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Example sentences for "subsidies"

Lexicographically close words:
subsidences; subsides; subsidiaries; subsidiary; subsidie; subsiding; subsidio; subsidise; subsidised; subsidising
  1. As also, he alloweth private persons liberty to deny subsidies and tribute to the prince, when he employeth it to the destruction of the commonwealth.

  2. Those who received pensions or subsidies from Austria are provided for by Serbia.

  3. Receivers of subsidies are naturally chary of writing against their patrons, and a great opportunity arises for interested parties to buy the press.

  4. It springs from the original practice of giving State subsidies to authors and journalists and newspaper proprietors, on the ground that the reading public is too small to support such people entirely.

  5. The Afridis are fearless fighters, half-civilized, half-savage, and almost entirely supported by the subsidies they receive.

  6. This body granted subsidies to the king, managed the debt and other secular affairs of the clergy, and pronounced unofficially even in matters of doctrine.

  7. The foreign office made use of ordonnances de comptant to the amount of several millions annually, for subsidies to foreign governments, expenses of ambassadors, secret service, etc.

  8. Aid to enterprises in private hands, such as ship subsidies or as the grants to the Pacific railroads, are defended on the ground that, as a whole, society benefits by thus increasing the income of one class.

  9. He made the most extravagant promises of the subsidies the emperor was to furnish, and of the powers which were to combine to trample England and France beneath their feet.

  10. Government price controls and subsidies have been steadily dismantled.

  11. Two years later, a formal Indo-Bhutanese accord returned the areas of Bhutan annexed by the British, formalized the annual subsidies the country received, and defined India's responsibilities in defense and foreign relations.

  12. It also depends on France for large subsidies and imports.

  13. The secret subsidies of the court came there to tempt the cupidity of the head of the young revolutionists.

  14. The Chamber of Shipping last year vigorously declared against subsidies of this kind; and the way in which the proposal was strangled leaves small hope of it ever being successfully revived.

  15. So it is probably true that Congress was extravagant in land subsidies voted to railroads; but that this legislation was secured by bribery is preposterous.

  16. Is not the Resolution of the noble lord in the blue ribbon, now standing on your Journals, the strongest of all proofs that Parliamentary subsidies really touched and grieved them?

  17. They had no wish to resist obstinately the demands of the Commons; but they complained that they already had to tax themselves heavily to provide subsidies for the King, and to meet the demands of the Pope.

  18. The clergy could not refuse the King's demands; but when they had to pay money to the King, they became more unwilling to send the Pope the subsidies which he demanded.

  19. The income from the fairly extensive church estates and the state subsidies provided a good, but not luxurious, living for the higher clergy.

  20. The 1949 decree on religion had provided for subsidies from the state to the three religious denominations.

  21. These subsidies had become indispensable for their survival because their property and all other material means of subsistence had been confiscated and nationalized in 1945, and without state help the churches could not function.

  22. Assistance and support of destitute churches (two subsidies of 5,000 frs.

  23. It was therefore necessary at all costs to prevent the German army from seizing the provisions and subsidies despatched by America.

  24. Fourteen States and sundry corporations have received similar subsidies in connection with railways completed or in process of construction.

  25. They are, moreover, provided for by benevolent asylums and other charitable institutions which receive large subsidies from the Government.

  26. This is gradually diminished until, at the end of fifteen years, no further subsidies are received, except such as have specially been voted by Parliament.

  27. Victoria has given subsidies towards the erection of butter factories; Victoria and New Zealand have subsidised the mining industry; and Western Australia has adopted a comprehensive scheme for the supply of water to the Coolgardie Goldfields.

  28. The administration is vested in the local authorities, who obtain the necessary funds from rates, voluntary contributions and subsidies on a fixed scale from the National Exchequer.

  29. Its principal function continued to be economic, rather than legislative, through the grants of subsidies by the representatives of the towns.

  30. The principal functions of this body had always been to grant or withhold subsidies and to make petitions, which the kings might, or might not, enact into law.

  31. It not only voted subsidies but also collected them, a function which it had exercised in previous eras.

  32. In 1665 the function of granting subsidies was given directly to the towns,--with the result that no Cortes was held in the entire reign of Charles II.

  33. Large tracts of fertile land, the application of modern technology, and subsidies have combined to make it the leading agricultural producer in Western Europe.

  34. It is also dependent upon France for large subsidies and imports.

  35. Bellows for urging the complete divorce of church and state, is that Catholics demand and receive subsidies from the state and city for their schools and several charitable institutions.

  36. The subsidies conceded to a few of our schools do by no means place them on an equality with those of non-Catholics.

  37. Some such subsidies have been granted, we admit, but in far less proportion to Catholics than they to Protestants or non-Catholics.

  38. We by no means receive our share of the subsidies conceded.

  39. At the same time the allies demanded and obtained new subsidies both of money and arms from Great Britain.

  40. Government subsidies had kept up the building of railroads during the years when the treasury was most embarrassed, and naturally went on more rapidly when prosperity came.

  41. The Rio Grandenses flocked over the border, bought large amounts of property, and enjoyed peculiar privileges, while the Uruguayan government accepted subsidies from that of Brazil.

  42. If the Federal Government is dependent on subsidies from the States, it can have no strength, nor even any real democratic basis.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subsidies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.